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The JMDI Team, in order to establish a dialogue between our members and give them a voice, welcomes your contribution! The JMDI Team and our partners also regularly share with the Community our blog posts concerning the most pressing issues in the field of migration and development.

We are proud to announce a new blog entry on harnessing the potential of migration for local development by our Programme Manager Cecile Riallant, which was published on the OECD Development Matters website and which we have also published below.
The JMDI was invited to write this blog in...

Today, we have over 244 million international migrants globally – this is the highest number ever recorded. Immigration is benefitting migrants themselves, countries of origin, transit and destination countries. However, it’s important to note that the greatest benefit comes when migrants’ rights...

On this day, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomes “the chorus of voices calling for an end to the violence that affects an estimated one in three women in her lifetime”. Indeed, the facts are horrifying: 35% of women and...

Migration and its discontents represent one of our greatest crisis as humanity. But the crisis it seems is not migration itself, but how humanity is responding to such migration. Despite having adopted ambitious global policies to ensure that our development is sustainable and equitable through the...

Originally published on Urbadaboom, 3rd April 2016
“As the Syrian refugee crisis enters into its fifth year, the protracted situation is having a growing impact beyond its neighbouring countries. Instability in the region is expected to persist, and consequent displacement, inside Syria and across...

Today we are celebrating Human Rights Day. Indeed, since the first ever international agreement on human rights in 1948 with the Universal Declaration for Human Rights to the multitude of conventions and protocols that have been ratified and put into place to date, we do have a lot to celebrate....

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Today, 25th November, we celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. During the 83rd UN General Assembly Plenary Meeting held in New York City the 17th of December 1999, the General Assembly emphasized its concern about violence against women...

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